Schools: Romford
(asked on 1st March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government plans to take to meet demand for school places in Romford.
This question was answered on 7th March 2016
The Government is investing £23 billion in school buildings to create 600,000 new school places, open 500 new free schools and address essential maintenance needs.
Havering local authority received £23 million of basic need funding between 2011 and 2015, which helped to create nearly 3,000 new places between 2010 and 2014.
It has also been allocated a further £47 million to create the places needed by 2018.